After editing my college newspaper at Campbell University, I worked as a news reporter, feature writer, and editor for four North Carolina newspapers, and I was editor of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina newspaper, as well as director of public information for the Diocese. After receiving my M.A. in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I taught creative writing, poetry, and newswriting at N. C. Central University. I have also worked as a historical publications editor for the state of North Carolina. From 1984-1989, I wrote two weekly, syndicated book review columns, "N. C. Literary Notes" and "The Literary Lantern" (a review of Southern books). In 1988, I founded Literary Lantern Press, initially as a vehicle for publishing a series of literary and historical maps of Southern states. Gradually, we added book titles, mostly my own but also some by others. I have published three volumes of poems, one volume of short stories, three books on church history, a lengthy study of the Gimghoul Castle legend of N. C. (Dromgoole, Twice-Murdered, 2017), and a new mystery novel, Someone Has Killed the Bishop (2023). I am working on a nonfiction history of the E. J. Hale & Son publishing company that operated in New York, 1867-1888. My illustrations have appeared in a wide variety of regional magazines and newspapers, and I also illustrate my own work. Since 2007, I have lived in a rambling old house, Erratic Manor, built in 1899, where I write, edit, and draw. My Georgia literary and historical maps were the subject of a feature story in the December 2022 issue of Georgia Back Roads.